If you’re a certain age, you may recognise the abandoned High Blantyre Train Station, pictured here in 1956. Looking southwards towards Sydes Brae ,the station is now a modern housing estate beside High Blantyre Old Parish Church, just out the picture to the left.

I liked the VIROL advert on the left. VIROL forced fed to kids to make them “healthy”! (Was that not processed beef and eggs?!). This was the beginning of the end for the station which fell into rapid decline through becoming overgrown and due to vandalism in the subsequent years.

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Elizabeth WeaverBrian Weaver But you hated cod liver oil even more. Mum used to give it to you in the bath because you made such a fuss spitting it out 😉 Good to be reminded of the 1950s, isn’t it? 🤣

Elizabeth WeaverTell you what was yummy though – Delrosa Rose Hip Syrup. Tooth-rotting stuff, but (allegedly) packed with Vit C.

Sandy WilkieRose hip sirrup – what a blast from the last that is! It was glorious!

Elizabeth WeaverDelicious, wasn’t it? You can still buy it, but it’s now an expensive “health food” and doesn’t taste quite as syrupy.

Brian WeaverElizabeth, oh yes, Delrosa! Auntie Betty always had that in her house, but we never seemed to have it in ours!

Elizabeth WeaverBrian Weaver I think we did, but Mum hid it at the back of the pantry because she knew it was irresistible. In beside the condensed milk, the golden syrup and other delicious things 🙂

Jiae JiaeElizabeth Weaver The dummy got stuck in it….not good for the teeth….

Jiae JiaeBrian Weaver You were either a Delarosa house or a Virol house, I remember my mother saying Virol was better…..she wouldn’t buy Delarosa….my teeth would not have agreed with her on any of these…all full of sugar.

Blantyre ProjectIm entirely open to that being earlier than 63. A defined and dated picture from 61 shows scenes of dereliction even more than the photo above, albeit on the other platform. The windows on the 61 platform are all gone, where on the above photo they’re still there. Im going to amend it to 61 at latest